Chess Oscar 2005 for Veselin Topalov

4/30/2006 – Few will be surprised to learn that FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov has won the chess Oscar for 2005. 361 chess experts from 68 countries awarded him a total of 4376 points. Indian chess star Vishy Anand is a relatively close second with 3495 points, the retired Garry Kasparov is 7th with 1001. More...

The Russian chess magazine «64» has announced that the winner
of the eleventh chess Oscar is the current FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov.
He was chosen by 361 chess experts from 68 countries. These experts nominated
the ten strongest players, awarding 13 points for the first nominee, 11 for
the second, nine for the third, seven for the fourth, six for fifth.... until
one for the tenth.

Veselin Topalov with his Chess Oscar

The bronze figurine of the "Fascinated Wanderer" will be formally
handed over to Topalov on May 10th 2006 at the opening of the international
tournament in Sofia. In ceremony will most likely be attended by the president
of Bulgaria, George Pravanov, and the president of the International Chess
Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who will hand over the prize to the winner.

In the followint table you can see how many points each player received, and
how often that player appeared first on the 293 lists submitted.

Pl.

Player

Country

Points

1st

1

Veselin Topalov

Bulgaria

4376

219

2

Viswanathan Anand

India

3495

31

3

Levon Aronian

Armenia

2721

10

4

Peter Svidler

Russia

1881

1

5

Peter Leko

Hungary

1187

6

6

Alexander Morozevich

Russia

1025

4

7

Garry Kasparov

Russia

1001

8

8

Vasily Ivanchuk

Ukraine

968

2

9

Ruslan Ponomarev

Ukraine

821

10

10

Magnus Carlsen

Norway

433

2

The above rankings appeared on in a report
published by the Oscar organisers «64». The official FIDE
Oscar site give a slightly different graph of "voting results".

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